Wayne D Overholser: 44 books

A WEALTHY CATTLEMAN TURNS A PEACEFUL LAND INTO A FLAMING VALLEY OF DEATH BULLETS SPEAK "I'm a fighting man, Strang...bullets are my suit. All I see around here is land, too much land for one man. I aim to fix it so these settlers can get what's coming to them." When...

They were all out to get Lee Starbuck. If the Indians didn't kill him, his best friend would shoot him in the back... STARBUCK WAS FED UP WITH KILLING. He had promised Melissa that his days of courting danger were over. But there was a troop of soldiers trapped by the marauding Utes...

Four strangers who rode to explode the night in violence PAY-OFF FOR 4 THE BRITTON BOYS were already wanted for robbery and murder—50,000 would be good travelling company to the Mexican border. SAM KERWIN was married to a young and restless wife—50,000 would go a long way...

CHEYENNE BEFORE THE RAILROADS—THE MAKING OF A BOOM TOWN THE 1870’S… "I had been hearing recently about a new town named Cheyenne in the southeastern corner of Wyoming that was going to be a division point on the Union Pacific. It just might be the place I was looking for...” Jim...

He crossed the high country with his gun loose and ready Birth of a Killer Eighteen-year-old Lane Garth was still little more than a boy the morning Jake Rawlings and his gang rode up to the Garth ranch. Four hours later Lane's father lay in a bloody heap in the ranch yard, one...

The mighty saga of the lusty, courageous men and women who conquered a new nation Day by day, they pushed doggedly across the Great Plains, through a savage, hate-filled wilderness, a nightmare of Cheyenne, Sioux and Comanche. They were a lone wagon train of men and women, deter­mined to fight...

A FEUD BETWEEN FATHER AND SON COMES TO A HEAD—IT’S KILL OR BE KILLED WHEN HIS FATHER COMES GUNNING... Rick Proctor faces the biggest crisis of his young life. Although he had tried to lead a life separate from his father's, Rick makes a discovery which will make that impossible forever:...

The mighty novel of the frontier West, and the handful of men and women who stood alone against the last great Indian uprising. AFTER CUSTER’S MASSACRE ... the vulnerable frontier was wide-open. The triumphant Sioux saw nothing be­tween them and the soft, fear-crazed white settlements...

A gold rush threatens to break the peace of a quiet Colorado town. Angel’s Landing was the mining town that grew up around a gold strike in the hills of Colorado. But the boom was long ago, and now the town is a whisper of what it once was. Mark Girard was a young boy when he witnessed firsthand...

"It's all so easy," Billy was thinking. "So nice and easy the way they're playing it. Taking their time to get me out of here. Nobody making trouble. No guns, nothing. Not a bad way to grab a buck... not bad at all... good sun...food... lie in the sun... take a little nap." ...Which...

Hated, hunted...the saga of kid who became a man too soon The day Johnny Deere left Star City he became a man. The people he thought were his friends had used and tricked him. They stripped him of his innocence and taught him how to kill. And then they told him to get out. Johnny learned...

MORE ACTION FROM OVERHOLSER'S SMOKING PEN STAMPEDIN’JUSTIN ALBRIGHT IS IN FORA FIGHT HE WILL NOT WIN—AND FORGET—EASILY Smith's Hole becomes a hell hole when Justin Albright stampedes his huge Skull herd through Maroon Canyon. Albright is power-drunk and greedy enough to think he can claim the...

THE LAWMEN,THE LAND-GRABBERS,THE LADY-KILLERS—SHE HANDED THEM ALL… “The thing I don't like about Susie is that she don't have no more modesty than a bitch dog, but damn it, on the other hand, she's got a heart as big as a wash tub and more guts than any man I know.” Actually, Susie Bowman...

GUN-SHYBig Jim Perrin was the richest cattle boss Oregon had ever known. With the help of frontier hard cases like Dan Nathan, he got everything he wanted without ever drawing a gun. But Nathan’s loyalties were divided between his land-hungry employer and the nesters who lost their spreads to Perrin....